This documentary chronicles a heart-stopping series of auditions for the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line. “A thrilling combination of documentary and musical dazzler.” — Rolling Stone
In order to get a job on Broadway, you have to give an opening night finished performance.
Screened as part of NZIFF 2009
Every Little Step 2008
A Chorus Line did for the Broadway musical in 1975 what Robert Altman's Nashville did for the movies. It saw through stardom to find the heart of show business in the personal struggles of a group of individuals auditioning to join the streamlined anonymity of a Broadway chorus line. Countless productions later, its characters, like its classic Marvin Hamlisch score, are indelibly etched on the hearts of anyone anywhere who ever auditioned for a show. This utterly absorbing behind-the-scenes documentary follows the auditions for the recent Broadway revival, tacitly comparing the auditioners of the original show with their dazzling, media-savvy descendants in the post-American Idol era. Even if you know who got through it's heart-in-the-mouth stuff. — BG
“It's a documentary... that asks you to share the joy, vulnerability, heartbreak, and love of a bunch of dancers trying out for a musical about a bunch of dancers trying out for a musical. It is, in other words, a movie as layered and enthralling as its subject.” — Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly